Gift Vid: Safe as Houses - for Nicole Anell

[chaila]

Title: Safe as Houses
Recipient: Nicole Anell
Vidder: chaila
Music: Deb Talan/The Weepies, "Safe as Houses"
Summary: "Will he still reach for you if the only dream you ever shared with him was a nightmare? Would he know my love runs through him like blood?"

Link: Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[seekingferret]

This is gorgeous and sad, how the grownups fight so hard to protect the kids and the kids lose their innocence anyway. I think my favorite juxtaposition is when you put the death of Cromartie right next to the page from the Wizard of Oz, as if to say that this idea of happily ever after, of ever winning the war for good, is a neat storybook that is deluding John and company.

[chaila]

Thank you! This show somehow takes a ubiquitous theme like that, and still manages to stomp all over my heart with it. I love the juxtaposition of the robots and the fairy tales. Like you say, happily ever after is a delusion. The fairy tale is real; the Connors are perpetually in Oz with witches and monsters, but the ending is a fakeout. It's the "fairy tale," but there is no end, there are no ruby slippers.